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Subject: Re: [patch 21/21] slab defrag: Obsolete SLAB
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 11:05:13 -0700 (PDT)
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On Wed, 14 May 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:

> Ignoring NUMA is no option unfortunately. And with integrated memory
> controller many of the remote CPU frees are off node.

The issue of object expiration holdoffs also affects applications 
running on pure SMP systems.